LICHALP

Lecanora gisleri (Anzi ex Arnold) Arnold

Syn.: Biatora gisleri Anzi ex Arnold, Lecidea gisleri (Anzi ex Arnold) Stizenb.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a probably circumboreal-montane lichen found on twigs of shrubs, especially Rhododendron ferrugineum in the subalpine belt.